Re: 1930's Taxes was Holiday Tasks


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Posted by PeterH on November 22, 2006 at 20:33:45 from 81.153.236.135 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: 1930's Taxes was Holiday Tasks posted by Owen Roberts on November 22, 2006 at 18:23:40:

Er, hang on, we seem to be forging ahead on the basis that Nancy and Peggy went to Roedean, and the G.A. paid income tax. There is no real evidence for either. As to the Roedean theory - there were dozens of schools in the south of England which could have fitted the bill, many of which were better (in educational terms) than Roedean anyway. Why do we need to believe that N and P had an ultra-posh upbringing? That's not how they appear to me, and in a BBC Radio version of S&A (often repeated on BBC 7) the Amazons had slight northern accents, and that sounds right to me.

As for the G.A. paying income tax, the remark was as reported by Nancy to Timothy and the Ds, and I reckon the G.A. was probably just having a general mindless swipe at the police. After all, the local police would not be financed out of income tax, but out of local or parish rates.

These types of speculation are popular on TarBoard and can be enjoyable, but perhaps we should remember that AR probably did not think this all through when he wrote the stories. We are, in a sense, looking for a matrix which does not exist. I very much doubt if the question of Maria Turner's tax position was at the forefront of his mind as he struggled to finish PM. He was, after all, writing for children! :-)


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